A Modern Book of Esthetics: An Anthology

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Pagina 549But in the application of mechanical instruments to the arts it is not the machine
itself that we must fear. The chief danger lies in the failure to integrate the arts
themselves with the totality of our life-experience: the perverse triumph of the ...

Pagina 553Modern handicraft, which sought to rescue the worker from the slavery of shoddy machine production, merely enabled the well-to-do to enjoy new objects that
were as completely divorced from the dominant social milieu as the palaces and
...

Pagina 554To survive, handicraft would have to adapt itself to the amateur, and it was bound
to call into existence, even in pure handwork, those forms of economy and
simplicity which the machine was claiming for its own, and to which it was
adapting ...